the crushing of eastern europe. she won a pulitzer prize. for her previous book published nearly a decade ago. she's back. # welcome back, anne. >> thank you. >> when you think about building democracy in the middle east, you think about building civil society and putting in place courts and such. when you looked at this process, which i think of in some ways as a reverse process, after world war ii, what is it that the soviets and local communist parties do to create communism in eastern europe? >> one of the interesting things that i found while doing the research for this book is how similar the patterns were in these really very different countries after the war. when the red army arrived in one of the conquered territories. it always did, three or four things that it always did right away. number one, perhaps the most obvious, was set up the secret police. number two, slightly less obvious, take over the radio station. >> why the radio station? >> because they cared about mass radio. they weren't so interested in intellectuals and peopl